Positivity Effect
A cognitive bias where individuals tend to focus on positive information or events more than negative ones, especially as they age.
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Functional Fixedness
A cognitive bias that limits a person to using an object only in the way it is traditionally used.
Licensing Effect
A cognitive bias where people allow themselves to indulge after doing something positive, believing they have earned it.
Worse-Than-Average Effect
A cognitive bias where individuals underestimate their own abilities and performance relative to others, believing they are worse than average.
Illusory Truth Effect
A cognitive bias where repeated statements are more likely to be perceived as true, regardless of their actual accuracy.
Illusory Correlation
The perception of a relationship between two variables when no such relationship exists.
Subadditivity Effect
A cognitive bias where the total probability assigned to a set of events is less than the sum of the probabilities assigned to each event individually.
Overconfidence Effect
A cognitive bias where a person's subjective confidence in their judgments is greater than their objective accuracy.
Boundary Extension
A cognitive bias where people remember scenes as being more expansive than they actually were.